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...Sardinia in overripe middle age. Experience has taught them little more than how to hone their barbs. Their fashion choices are worse than ever, and the embonpoint of token bimbo Gigi (Marie-Anne Chazel) has been enlarged to gargantuan proportions. Past entanglements collide with new realities to create fresh comic crises within the group. "They're really trashy and amazingly repulsive, yet they accept it in one another as the price to pay to remain friends," explains Patrice Leconte, who directed the original movies and the new release. "That's also why the Bronzés characters work with fans...
SASHA VS. SACHA: A VIEWER'S GUIDE TO KEEPING YOUR COHENS STRAIGHT U.S. figure skater SASHA COHEN and British comic SACHA BARON COHEN share more than a moniker...
Pixar may follow its summer vehicle Cars with Ratatouille, a tale about a rat who lives in a fancy French restaurant. Little is known of future projects, but Incredibles auteur Brad Bird has long wanted to direct a noir-style film, possibly based on Will Eisner's comic The Spirit. Meanwhile, creative kingpin John Lasseter, who has a deep affinity for traditional 2-D cel animation, is expected to revive that form in some way. He may even jump-start the long-dormant world-music spin-off of Fantasia, titled Musicana...
...long career. Totally absent of giant robots, schoolgirl romantic melodrama or any manner of supernatural beings, the stories of The Push Man are set exclusively in the gritty, working-class world of Japan's modern cities. Mostly kept to eight pages due to their original appearance in a Japanese comic anthology, they are endlessly inventive, compact tales full of cruel irony, quiet desperation and schadenfreude. Editor Adrian Tomine (author of Summer Blonde), correctly points out in the introduction that the naturalism of Tatsumi's 1969 stories are wildly ahead of their time in comparison with the U.S., when the underground...
...plot? Oh, never mind, except to note that it sidles up to the hero's birth and impromptu, painfully comic circumcision. What matters here is the casting of the two--sorry, six--leads. Steve Coogan, the Brit comic best known for incarnating Alan Partridge, a suavely unknowing TV host, plays four roles: Tristram, his father, Sterne and a put-upon egomaniac star named Steve Coogan. Rob Brydon, who has worked often with Coogan, plays Tristram's Uncle Toby and "Rob Brydon." Much of the film's grace and brass come from their comic kinship, as when they compare Pacino impressions...